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The Henry Luce III Center For The Study Of American Culture
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: New York Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $10.00
Seniors (65 and over): $7.00
Students: $6.00
Children 12 and under: Free
Researchers using Library: Free
Free admission Fridays: 6pm - 8pm
Opened in November 2000, the acclaimed Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture is an innovative display that makes accessible to the public in a single place nearly 40,000 objects from the museum's permanent collection (70 percent of the museum collection; catalog of collection online), ranging from George Washington's camp bed at Valley Forge to the world's largest collection of Tiffany lamps.
Encompassing 21,000 square feet and located on the Historical Society's fourth floor, the Luce Center houses collections long held in off-site storage. Information about this treasure trove of Americana is delivered in a variety of ways, ranging from thematic audio tours to interactive computer ports and mini-exhibition stations.
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11/24/2009
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The Henry Luce III Center For The Study Of American Culture
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: New York Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $10.00
Seniors (65 and over): $7.00
Students: $6.00
Children 12 and under: Free
Researchers using Library: Free
Free admission Fridays: 6pm - 8pm
Opened in November 2000, the acclaimed Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture is an innovative display that makes accessible to the public in a single place nearly 40,000 objects from the museum's permanent collection (70 percent of the museum collection; catalog of collection online), ranging from George Washington's camp bed at Valley Forge to the world's largest collection of Tiffany lamps.
Encompassing 21,000 square feet and located on the Historical Society's fourth floor, the Luce Center houses collections long held in off-site storage. Information about this treasure trove of Americana is delivered in a variety of ways, ranging from thematic audio tours to interactive computer ports and mini-exhibition stations.
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11/24/2009
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American Paintings and Sculpture
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Painting
Venue: New York Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $10.00
Seniors (65 and over): $7.00
Students: $6.00
Children 12 and under: Free
The New-York Historical Society houses an outstanding collection of American paintings-primarily portraits, genre scenes, and landscapes-dating from the colonial period through the 20th century, as well as a select number of European works. Comprising over 2,500 objects, it includes the personal collection of the New York merchant and pioneering art patron Luman Reed, which was donated together with the holdings of the New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts in 1858, as well as the collection of Robert L. Stuart, another of New York's prominent philanthropists and art collectors of the nineteenth century. Another collection that factors significantly in the Society's holdings is that of Thomas Jefferson Bryan, which includes both American and European paintings donated in 1867. The Society is also the repository of one of the nation's preeminent collections of Hudson River School landscapes, including works by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand (over 400 pieces including works on paper), Frederic E. Church, Jasper F. Cropsey, Sanford R. Gifford, John F. Kensett and Albert Bierstadt. Sketchbooks, drawings, diaries and correspondence generated by many of these painters are retained in the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture and in the N-YHS Library. The society also holds genre paintings by artists such as Francis William Edmonds, William Henry Burr, and William Sidney Mount, as well as Eastman Johnston's well known "Negro Life at the South" from 1859.
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11/24/2009
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History Responds: September 11, 2001
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: New York Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $10.00
Seniors (65 and over): $7.00
Students: $6.00
Children 12 and under: Free
Researchers using Library: Free
Free admission Fridays: 6pm - 8pm
In keeping with its founding mission, the New-York Historical Society took an early leadership role in compiling, caretaking, cataloguing and exhibiting historical evidence related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and its aftermath. The full educational and interpretive umbrella of this continuing project has been named History Responds. The History Responds collection and archive includes thousands of September 11th -associated artifacts from sources as varied as the Fresh Kills Landfill, New York City's Police and Fire Departments, the 24-hour relief centers at St. Paul's Chapel and Nino Vendome's Canal Street restaurant, St. Vincent's and Mount Sinai Hospitals, Union Square and Pennsylvania Station, local schools and schools around the globe, firehouses and police stations, and the downtown Manhattan neighborhoods quarantined by the disaster and residents' evolving efforts to cope with the dramatically altered landscape. Countless individuals, from photographers to firemen, teachers to EMS technicians, clergymen to construction workers, have stepped forward to contribute individually meaningful artifacts, images, and stories. From architectural relics to personal recollections, this exceptional archive of eyewitness material continues to grow. Artifacts in the History Responds collection may be broadly classified as follows: architectural relics, eyewitness objects, shrine and memorial materials, support/sympathy materials, children's creations, souvenirs, and intact objects with provenance to the World Trade Center predating September 11, 2001 that have acquired new significance as tokens of the towers' culture of work and entertainment.
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11/24/2009
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American Drawings And Works On Paper
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Drawing/Illustration
Venue: New York Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $10.00
Seniors (65 and over): $7.00
Students: $6.00
Children 12 and under: Free
Researchers using Library: Free
Free admission Fridays: 6pm - 8pm
One of the jewels in the crown of the New York Historical Society is its drawing collection, numbering around 8,000 sheets. Collected since 1816, this distinguished, highly distinctive trove is one the earliest public drawing collections in the country. It is also one of the finest, with its strength residing in unparalleled late 18th- and early 19th-century material. Its portraits, landscapes, genre scenes, and history subjects furnish a comprehensive survey of American art from its inception, dominated by immigrant European artists, up through the 1860's, by which time native-born artists had asserted an American identity. Other stellar clusters from the late 19th and early 20th centuries-like the 640 drawings by James Carroll Beckwith, including the ten earliest portraits known of John Singer Sargent, together with six newly discovered sheets by Sargent, and watercolors by Tiffany-help to illuminate the American cultural firmament. The collection also documents major events and trends in the history of the nation, such as westward expansion-beginning with rare artifacts from colonial and Federal times-and encompasses objects collected because of their historical interest.
While panoramic in scope, the Society's diverse drawing collection also encompasses large holdings by a single artist or group. Among the highlights are the 500 watercolors by John James Audubon, including all 435 preparatory for The Birds of America. These national treasures form the centerpiece of the Society's Audubon holdings, the largest repository of Auduboniana in the world. Another singular group is the 221 "outline" drawings of George Catlin that record Native American culture. The Society also holds an incredibly rich cluster of drawings by Hudson River School artists like Thomas Cole, Jasper Cropsey, and John Frederick Kensett, and all the known watercolors by William Guy Wall for the seminal The Hudson River Portfolio (1820-25), which lent its name to the nation's first indigenous landscape school and set the itinerary for the American Grand Tour. It also numbers over 350 drawings and sketchbooks of Asher B. Durand.
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11/24/2009
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A Portrait of the City (Luce Center Installation)
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Painting
Venue: New York Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $10.00
Seniors (65 and over): $7.00
Students: $6.00
Children 12 and under: Free
Researchers using Library: Free
Free admission Fridays: 6pm - 8pm
A group of 22 paintings and 2 small sculptures will offer visitors a chronological journey through highlights of the N-YHS’s rich collection of New York views, including historical images of the metropolis and richly allusive images of its inhabitants and their lives. The installation will include a selection of city views, beginning and ending with two monumental cityscapes, Guy’s Tontine Coffee House of ca. 1797 and Jacquette’s From World Trade Center, 1998. It will feature portraits of political and cultural figures such as DeWitt Clinton, who oversaw the development of the Erie Canal, and Peter Williams, the former slave who became a successful merchant and a founding trustee of the Zion Church for Negroes. It will also illuminate the everyday lives of New Yorkers through such works as Burr’s The Intelligence Office, 1849 and Thain’s Italian Block Party, 1922.
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11/22/2009
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Ariadne: The Great American Nude - Luce Center (Durand Case)
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Painting
Venue: New York Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $10.00
Seniors (65 and over): $7.00
Students: $6.00
Children 12 and under: Free
Researchers using Library: Free
Free admission Fridays: 6pm - 8pm
John Vanderlyn was among the first American painters to spend significant time studying in Paris, and while abroad around 1812 he created his masterpiece Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). The painting was admitted to the Paris Salon that year -- a triumph for a young American artist. But triumph turned to despair when Vanderlyn exhibited Ariadne back in the United States in 1815, where audiences considered the nude a shocking subject, and it failed to garner the public acclaim it deserved.
Many artists and critics, however, realized Vanderlyn's great achievement, among them the engraver and aspiring painter Asher B. Durand. In 1831 Durand purchased Vanderlyn's great work, along with an unfinished copy that is now in the N-YHS collection. Durand created an engraving of Vanderlyn's unappreciated masterpiece that was hailed by some as a great achievement, but the American public was still unprepared to accept a nude figure as a subject for art, so the print met a fate similar to the painting that inspired it. But there the two artists' fates diverged: while Vanderlyn became embittered and eventually died in poverty, Durand went on to become an accomplished portraitist and a highly acclaimed landscape painter. The exhibition is being curated by Kim Orcutt.
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11/22/2009
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Window Display for Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York–Presbyterian
-- Arts - Installation, Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: New York Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $10.00
Seniors (65 and over): $7.00
Students: $6.00
Children 12 and under: Free
Researchers using Library: Free
Free admission Fridays: 6pm - 8pm
At the invitation of Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital the New-York Historical Society will present a display in the Hospital lobby that will welcome families to the institution. This lively installation will feature a miniaturized façade of the Historical Society building, leading into an interior populated with reproductions of some of its great treasures, including portraits of children and toys, in particular the Society's beloved nineteenth-century Noah's ark. The display will be on view through early June of 2010.
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11/22/2009
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Slavery in New York
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Installation, Arts - Science
Venue: New York Historical Society
Cost: Adults: $10.00
Seniors (65 and over): $7.00
Students: $6.00
Children 12 and under: Free
Researchers using Library: Free
Free admission Fridays: 6pm - 8pm
Until the New-York Historical Society's landmark exhibition, Slavery in New York, opened to acclaim on October 7, 2005, no museum had told the full story of slavery in New York—from its early 17th century roots, through the aftermath of the Civil War. This unprecedented exploration into slavery and its impact on the people, landscape, institutions, and economy of New York City, State, and the nation, attracted record crowds, generated favorable reviews in the media and, very importantly, visits from tens of thousands of teachers and students.
To accommodate the unprecedented number of people who wanted to see the exhibition, the viewing dates were extended for three weeks through March 26, 2006. Now, in order to further the reach of this important story, the Society has created a version of this exhibition for permanent display. The Slavery In New York exhibition is installed in The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, on the Mezzanine Level of the Society's Fourth Floor.
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11/24/2009
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